Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest violates First Amendment protections, lawyers say
Trying to deport Khalil for demonstrating against Israel is an obvious violation of his rights and an attempt to intimidate ...
9 Fundamental Facts About the ACLU
The group was founded during World War I to defend Americans’ First Amendment freedoms. Over the years, that mission has ...
Opinion
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CMU passes a test of its own
A white supremacist was invited to speak on campus by a student organization — a sharp test of the university’s mission and values. The administration has opted to tolerate the intolerable as an ...
Wall Street Journal23d
CBS’s Impossible Opposition to Free Speech
A classic case is National Socialist Party v. Skokie (1977), in which the American Civil Liberties Union represented neo-Nazis who had been enjoined from holding a demonstration in an Illinois ...
Crooks and Liars18d
Gov. Pritzker Compares American Fascism And Naziism
Pritzker went back to the story of the Nazis who wanted a parade. He said that they eventually did have it, but instead of Skokie, they went to Chicago. And after all that fighting over it, only 20 of ...
The New Yorker21d
We Might Have to “Shut Down the Country”
The American Civil Liberties Union, a major player in this drama ... Would the A.C.L.U. today defend the right of American Nazis to march in Skokie, Illinois? [In 1977, the A.C.L.U. defended ...
The Pantagraph27d
As Chicago strengthens immigrant protections, downstate officials split on sanctuary laws
The ACLU and local law enforcement officials told ... in the state are mostly in the greater Chicago area, in towns like Skokie, Berwyn and Oak Park. In Evanston, the city council recently signed ...
Mediaite15d
Bill Maher Tells Guest Tom Green ‘You Don’t Know What Free Speech Is’ as They Go Toe-to-Toe on Canadian Hate Speech Laws
The American Civil Liberties Union represented the Nazis seeking to march in the case, a controversial decision as Skokie was home to thousands of Holocaust survivors at the time. “The Supreme ...
NBC Chicago22d
Full text: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker's ‘State of the State' address
“As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest ... It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech ...
AOL22d
Full text of Gov. Pritzker's State of the State and Budget Address
As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest ... It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech ...
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Bill Maher Tells Guest Tom Green ‘You Don’t Know What Free Speech Is’ as They Go Toe-to-Toe on Canadian Hate Speech Laws
Bill Maher informed his guest Tom Green this week that he doesn't "know what free speech is" during a debate on Canadian hate speech laws. The post Bill Maher Tells Guest Tom Green ‘You Don’t Know ...